Lee Woolver uses lima beans from the Beekman garden to make a green butter for fish. For a neat presentation, roll the herbed butter in plastic wrap into a cylinder and refrigerate until firm. Slice off rounds of butter as you need them.

Tender fish kebabs are a favorite recipe of home cooks and street vendors throughout Casablanca and other coastal towns in Morocco. It's probably because they're so easy to make and because smoky, juicy pieces of swordfish (or monkfish, if you prefer) pair so effortlessly with almost any of the wonderful vegetable salads that are common in Morocco.

A riff on the classic Venetian dish sarde in saor, this recipe combines meaty swordfish with vinegared onions and smoky grilled fennel. Look for swordfish steaks that have a nice sheen and are relatively thin; they're more tender than heftier steaks, which can be mealy.

Cooking fish on an outdoor grill is one of the joys of summer. Firm swordfish steaks are particularly well suited to this method, and here we've topped them with a seasonal salsa of cucumber, dill and grilled tomatoes. The dish can also be made in the broiler.